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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyLabrisomidae
  5. ›genusMalacoctenus
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Zaca blenny

Malacoctenus zacae Springer, 1959

Also calledBlenia (spa) · trambollo aletiamarilla (spa)

First described in: Springer, V. G. (1959). Systematics and zoogeography of the clinid fishes of the subtribe Labrisomini Hubbs. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Texas.</em> 5 (for Dec. 1958): 417-492.

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description

Zaca Blenny. To 6.5 cm (2.6 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Isla Guadalupe; tip of Baja California and extreme south-western part of Gulf of California to central Mexico (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: shallow water (Thomson et al. 1979) to 10 m (33 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2389493.